Race for pandemic flu vaccine rife with hurdles

new pre pandemic avian flu vaccine progress

Development of live cultural pandemic influenza vaccine Vector-Flu

Background The threat of pandemic A/H1N1 influenza remains a matter of considerable public concern. Recent influenza outbreaks underline the importance of rapid production of a reserve of vaccine sufficient for pandemic and interpandemic periods. Traditional vaccines intended for seasonal influenza do not satisfy this demand, because they are unable to induce cross-reactive antibodies to pandem...

2012 Pandemic Flu

Dear Editor, a new H1N1 pandemic flu is approaching Europe. In Italy, the results obtained from the “ECMOnet” network, for the centralization of patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in structures with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support, are encouraging (1,2) but far from being exhaustive, mainly because of the small number of patients treated. The ECMO techni...

Flu pandemic fears continue

The threat of a flu pandemic is greater than ever because of the continuing spread of the bird flu virus in southeast Asia, the World Health Organisation warned last month. With bird flu outbreaks now being reported for more than 12 months, despite countermeasures, the possibility of a global epidemic that could kill millions of people is considered by some officials to be more likely than not....

Flu Pandemic Pushing Demand for ECMO

S could be the procedure of choice for preserving lung function in patients with peripheral stage IA non–small cell lung cancer if indeed it can provide the same rate of disease-free survival as lobectomy. A randomized trial currently underway should help to address some of the surgical community’s concerns about the size and conduct of the previous randomized trial that made lobectomy the surg...